African Heritage of American English - Hardcover

Holloway, Joseph E.; Vass, Winifred K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253328381 ISBN 13: 9780253328380

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1993

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Book by Holloway Joseph E Vass Winifred K III

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'An important contribution, as it builds on Lorenzo Dow Turner's and Winifred Vass' previous scholarship on the African origins and contributions to English, and takes the matter to a new level' - John F. Szwed. "The African Heritage of American English" provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words. Presenting a comprehensive accounting of African words retained from Bantu, Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass examine: the Bantu vocabulary content of the Gullah dialect of the Sea Islands; Black names in the United States; Africanisms of Bantu origin in Black English; Bantu place names in nine southern states; and, Africanisms in contemporary American English. These linguistic retentions reflect the cultural patterns of groups imported to the United States, and the subsequent dispersion of these groups, and their continuing influence on the shaping of American culture.

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The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words. Presenting a comprehensive accounting of African words retained from Bantu, Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass examine the Bantu vocabulary content of the Gullah dialect of the Sea Islands; Black names in the United States; Africanisms of Bantu origin in Black English; Bantu place names in nine southern states; and Africanisms in contemporary American English. These linguistic retentions reflect the cultural patterns of groups imported to the United States, the subsequent dispersion of these groups, and their continuing influence on the shaping of American culture.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0253328381
• ISBN 13: 9780253328380
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240